Loc. 14, Halfbreed Creek [upper Pawkowki Fm] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.0° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 76.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pawkowki Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Pawkowki Formation, which overlies the Early Campanian Milk River Formation, is equivalent to the Lea Park Fm, and is overlain by the Judith River Fm (Late Campanian). AGE: Early Campanian on the basis of ammonite (and other groups) biostratigraphy; Baculites obtusus biozone. Early Campanian according to Dawson et el. - Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper Pakowki Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Offshore siliciclastic marine setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but certainly siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite

Collected by Russell & Landes in 1934-1936; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L.S. Russell and R. W. Landes. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

Primary reference: L. S. Russell and R. W. Landes. 1937. Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82672: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, scaphopoda, and cephalopoda.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites ovatus Say 1820 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus subdepressus Meek and Hayden 1861 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Pteria nebrascana Evans and Shumard 1857 scallop
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Linearia formosa Meek and Hayden 1861 tellin clam